Category Archives: Health
Manitoba offers more money to better control COVID-19 in personal care homes
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is promising more money to help personal care homes battle COVID-19. Next week's budget will include $15 million to help care homes boost staffing, improve cleaning and update their information technology, Premier Hea...
Manitoba expands eligibility for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has expanded eligibility requirements for people to get a second booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Those eligible include residents of personal care homes and in congregate settings, such as supportive housing and a...
Nunavut to lift all public health measures including masks, COVID-19 data
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut is to lift all its remaining COVID-19 health measures when it ends its public health emergency on Monday. The territory's Health Department says a mask mandate will be dropped and people who test positive for COVID-19 will
Calls to health line reveal desperation of Quebec care home owners as COVID-19 hit
MONTREAL — Newly released recordings of phone calls to a Quebec government health line from March 2020 reveal how desperate the owners of a long-term care home were as COVID-19 struck their establishment during the pandemic's first wave. The two calls...
US experts wrestle with how to update COVID-19 vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials are beginning to grapple with how to keep the vaccines updated to best protect Americans from the ever-changing coronavirus.
Quebec COVID hospitalizations expected to rise, situation still under control: report
MONTREAL — COVID-19 hospitalizations in Quebec are expected to rise over the next two weeks, and there could be up to 265 new admissions a day within that time, the province's health-care research institute said Wednesday. But the Institut national d’e...
Nursing home care, funding system need overhaul, report says
NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an ind...
Health workers have a small budget request to tackle the Canadian care crisis: a plan
OTTAWA — The federal government is set to table a budget Thursday against the backdrop of several national and international emergencies and major funding commitments. Chief on that list is addressing Canada's flagging health-care systems, which are s...
Congressman Adam Schiff tests positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. “I’m feeling fine, and grateful to be vaccinated
COVID spending bill stalls in Senate as GOP, Dems stalemate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses stalled in the Senate Wednesday and seemed all but certainly sidetracked for weeks, victim of a campaign-season fight over the incendiary issue of immigra...
